This anthology collects a number of fascinating strands of Bertrand Russell's thought. "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" details the impact of the 1900 World Congress of Philosophers on Russell's development and the hope that new methods in mathematics could be applied to the solution of ancient philosophical problems. Many of the subsequent essays show the evolution of this hope as Russell worked on the foundations of mathematics and applied the new methods to the reconstruction of physical objects on the basis of sense-data, and the redefinition of matter and cause. (Landon D. C. Elkind)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Preface
03:53 - Chapter 2
Mysticism and Logic
1:05:52 - Chapter 3
The Place of Science in a Liberal Education
27:10 - Chapter 4
A Free Man's Worship
25:49 - Chapter 5
The Study of Mathematics
34:30 - Chapter 6
Mathematics and the Metaphysicians
49:42 - Chapter 7
On Scientific Method in Philosophy
59:01 - Chapter 8
The Ultimate Constituents of Matter
44:12 - Chapter 9
The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics (Part 1)
36:36 - Chapter 10
The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics (Part 2)
38:41 - Chapter 11
On the Notion of Cause
1:02:45 - Chapter 12
Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description
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